Irish Examiner view: Don’t hold your breath

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the first step into the scoping process on how the Government handled the covid-19 pandemic hasn't even started.

The old technique of placing potentially problematic questions “on the long finger” is currently being pointed at expectations that there will be an inquiry into what happened in Ireland during the pandemic. 

Over 18 months since Micheál Martin promised what he liked to describe as an “an evaluation of how the country managed covid-19”, nothing is happening.